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Re: [PATCH GIT 0.6] make use of register variables & size_t

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 25, 2005, 12:32 UTC
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<20050425123236.GC26665@pasky.ji.cz>
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<426CD1F1.2010101@tiscali.de>

Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:18:09PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de> told me that...

> The "git" didn't try store small variables, which aren't referenced, in 
> the processor registers. It also didn't use the size_t type. I corrected 
> a C++ style comment too.

Honestly, I don't think using the register keyword helps anything but to make the code less readable.

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Message 6 of 21 in “make use of register variables & size_t”
  1. make use of register variables & size_tMatthias-Christian Ott, Apr 25, 2005
  2. Rene RebeApr 25, 2005
  3. Matthias-Christian OttApr 25, 2005
  4. Matthias-Christian OttApr 25, 2005
  5. David A. WheelerApr 25, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisApr 25, 2005
  7. Pekka EnbergApr 25, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 25, 2005
  9. Matthias-Christian OttApr 25, 2005
  10. Jan-Benedict GlawApr 25, 2005
  11. Thomas GlanzmannApr 25, 2005
  12. Jan-Benedict GlawApr 25, 2005
  13. Matthias-Christian OttApr 25, 2005
  14. valdis.kletnieks@vt.eduApr 25, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 25, 2005
  16. Matthias-Christian OttApr 25, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsApr 25, 2005
  18. Arjan van de VenApr 25, 2005
  19. valdis.kletnieks@vt.eduApr 25, 2005
  20. Brian O'MahoneyApr 25, 2005
  21. Dmitry TorokhovApr 25, 2005

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